La plus précieuse des marchandises

2024 [FRENCH]

Animation / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 2468 2.5K

based on novel or book holocaust (shoah) world war ii family relationships adult animation historical drama

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Plot summary

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

Director

Michel Hazanavicius Photo
Michel Hazanavicius

Top cast

Laurent Bateau Photo
Laurent Bateau as Un collègue bûcheron
Adam Carage Photo
Adam Carage as Le soldat Armée Rouge
Jean-Louis Trintignant Photo
Jean-Louis Trintignant as Narrator
Matej Hofmann Photo
Matej Hofmann as L'interprète
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
740.02 MB
1280*692
French 2.0
13
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 4
1.48 GB
1920*1038
French 5.1
13
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Initially, I thought we were in for a

Initially, I thought we were in for a reversion of “Tom Thumb” as a surly woodcutter and his wife live a subsistence existence in the snowy forest where she longs for a child, but we are swiftly disabused of that theory! Their lives are only ever broken up by the disturbance of the train as it passes through, and it’s when praying to that one day that she thinks she hears a baby crying. Searching the snow, she quickly discovers an infant wrapped in a distinctive blanket and quickly takes it to their home. Her husband, though, feels the child to be an ill omen and wants nothing to do with it, so with her and the bairn confined to the cold of the woodshed, she has to try to find it some milk! That’s just the start of her travails, though, as we are gradually clued in to where this baby came from, and of the fate that awaited it’s parents that led to such a desperate act of love. What now ensues follows her struggle to keep herself and the child from an increasingly approaching war that had hitherto largely left them be, and that might ultimately dot the i’s and cross the t’s of a story that is touching, courageous and heartening. The almost constant wintery scenario adds an additional chill to a stylishly presented animation that features a sparing degree of dialogue, but some fairly effective audio effects to help create a variety of emotions as the child begins to grow and this simple, decent, family find they no longer have their problems to seek. It’s perhaps the last half hour that resonates most, as threads of the tale start to bind together revealing a degree of bleakness and inhumanity on one hand and yet the diametric opposite on the other. What wouldn’t a parent do for a child?
Reviewed by 8 / 10

HAUNTING YET BEAUTIFUL.

"Cartoons are for children," they say - and then a film like The Most Precious of Cargoes proves otherwise. Set during the Holocaust, this animated tale uses simplicity to its advantage, telling a stripped-down yet deeply moving story that feels part fairy tale, part nightmare. With haunting visuals and a quiet emotional weight, it reminds us that kindness and courage are not just noble ideas but actions - especially when humanity is at its most fragile. It's a powerful use of animation to reflect on real horrors and lasting hope. A deeply human story, told with grace.An absolute a hopeless cinema.
Reviewed by 0U 7 / 10

THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES?

The Most Precious of Cargoes is a friendly reminder that life is not fiction, and that much more important things can happen that are way further beyond belief.The film takes place in a dark, wintry forest on the outskirts of Auschwitz during the height of World War II. A poor woodcutter and a poor woodcutter's wife have lost their only child and aged out of the potential to have more. They pass their days in uneasy détente, him content without worrying another mouth to feed while she prays to every god at her disposal for another chance at motherhood. It's a cold, cruel world; always winter, but never Christmas, and the snowflakes that dance gently upon the wind evoke the ashes that rise from the fiery stacks of the nearby camp.
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